Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2023/October

This is the October archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2023.

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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
คนมีสี • (kon-mii-sǐi) noun (slang) public servant, especially one who has a uniform, such as a police or military officer (literally “person with colours”, referring to the colours of a uniform)
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
dlaczemu pronoun (humorous, ironic) why, how come
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Foreign word of the day  in Basque
tramankulu noun (informal) a large, useless or unusual machine, piece of junk
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Foreign word of the day  in German
zwischen Tür und Angel adv (idiomatic) while standing; while in a hurry; in passing; in a situation where one does not have or take the time to do something properly accidentally (literally, “between the door and the hinge”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
στόρθυγξ • (stórthunx) noun point, spike tine, tusk
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Foreign word of the day  in Punjabi
اَلْلٰہ وَلّوں • (alláh valloṉ) adverb (idiomatic) coincidentally
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
alharaca noun clamour, vociferation; fuss
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Foreign word of the day  in Sranan Tongo
akata noun cotton headpad for carrying loads
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Foreign word of the day  in Armenian
տասնմեկ մետրանոց • (tasnmek metranocʿ) noun (football) penalty kick
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Foreign word of the day  in Old English
ēagþȳrel noun window (literally, “eye-hole”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
愛睏藥仔 / 爱困药仔 (ài-khùn-io̍h-á) noun (Taiwanese Hokkien, pharmaceutical drug) sleeping pill; hypnotic
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Foreign word of the day  in French
dingue adjective (slang) mad, crazy, nuts (colloquial) incredible, unbelievable
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Foreign word of the day  in Irish
buachaill noun boy; young, unmarried man; lad boyfriend herdsman servant, male employee useful thing (referring to a masculine noun)
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌽𐍃 • (usbeisns) noun longsuffering expectation
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
trúc mai noun (archaic, literary, figurative) an intimate bond (literally, “bamboo and plum”, after a Chinese poem)
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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
경질 • (gyeongjil) noun replacement; reshuffling solidity; hardness; (attributive) hard, solid, tough
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Foreign word of the day  in Albanian
xhuxhmaxhuxh noun, adjective (noun, folklore) dwarf, gnome (noun) short-legged person, shorty, midget (adjective) short, short-legged (derived from a phrase meaning “Gog and Magog” that was influenced by a word for dwarf)
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
csőr noun beak (rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird’s face, used for eating) spout, nozzle (protruding tube or lip whose purpose is to direct the flow of a liquid) (slang, mildly offensive) piehole, trap (a person’s mouth, especially in relation to talking) (a blend of words meaning “tube” and “nose”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
अनुलोम • (anuloma) adjective regular; in order (following an appropriate sequence); successive (by extension) favourable; agreeable (literally “in the direction of hair growth”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Sranan Tongo
dyonko verb, noun (verb) to slumber, to doze off, to nod off, to drowse (noun, slang) a joint, a marijuana cigarette
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
آس • (ʔās) noun myrtle (Myrtus gen. et spp.) ace (card games, dice games, etc.)
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
diagonaaltje noun (Netherlands, informal) One of every snack in a snackmuur (type of vending machine containing mostly deep-fried snacks), generally starting from the topmost row of the leftmost column and moving diagonally downwards towards the bottom right.
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Foreign word of the day  in Bulgarian
лющя́н • (ljuštján) noun lovage (Levisticum officinale)
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
ناشی • (nâši) adjective resulting, arising unskilled, novice
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
cornupeta adjective thrusting, goring or pushing with horns
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
狐火 • (kitsunebi) noun a mysterious pale fire often seen in the fields and mountains at night from winter to early spring: will o' the wisp, foxfire kabuki props designed to imitate will o' the wisps
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